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Family in their Living Room

Date: 1955
Description: Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set.
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Johns Island Children

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Description: A child holding a baby next to a television on Johns Island. Part of the Citizenship group that convened there.
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Stewart Douglas House

Date: 11 15 1951
Description: Interior view of living room, including furniture, a television set, and a floor to ceiling window in the home of Stewart and Jean Douglas at 811 Farwell D...
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Stewart Douglas House

Date: 11 15 1951
Description: Interior view of the living room at 811 Farwell Drive, including plants and vines in foreground. Homeowners Jean and Stewart Douglas are sitting and looki...
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Thuy Nguyen and Thanh Le

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Description: Thuy Nguyen sits on the lap of family friend "Uncle" Thanh Le, a teacher at Madison East High School.
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Nguyen Family with Television

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Description: Trong Nguyen poses with his children in the living room, next to the television. Charlie Nguyen sits on his lap. In front of him, from left to right, are T...
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Watching TV

Date: 04 1991
Description: Man watching a program on a large television. In front of him is a TV tray. There is a VCR on top of the television. Although unidentified it is likely tha...
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Gerald Bartell Home Interior

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: Joyce Bartell sitting on the sofa with her daughter Laurie, age three, in the living room of her and husband Gerald's home at 3938 Plymouth Circle in Madis...
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Interior Decorating in Homes

Date: 04 10 1958
Description: There is a corner fireplace in the living room of the E.R. Welch house at 3620 Lake Mendota Drive. The fireplace forms a wall and conversation corner overl...
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Vel and Dale Phillips

Date: 1956
Description: Vel Phillips sitting in an armchair, wearing a tan top with a light blue skirt. Dale is kneeling next to her, wearing eyeglasses. A television is in the co...
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Sid in His Living Room

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Description: Sid Boyum, with a cigar in his mouth, is sitting on a fur-covered sofa in his living room reading a magazine. There is a large, carved wooden shelving unit...
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Lizard Cannon Sculpture

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Description: Sculpture of a cannon in the shape of an imaginary dragon on top of a television set in Sid's living room. Behind the sculpture is a bookcase full of books...
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Art in Sid's Living Room

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Description: View of a corner of Sid's living room. There is a painting by Sid of a pine tree in a mountainscape hanging on the wall. Below it is a bookshelf with sever...
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Cook County Housing Authority Elderly Housing

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Description: Cook County Housing Authority Elderly Housing, Keck and Keck project #795. Project date 1969. This is a photograph of the living room and kitchen in the ho...
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Lewis Arms' Birthday Party

Date: 1967
Description: Lewis Arms pouring himself a drink at his birthday party.
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University of Wisconsin Eagle Heights Apartments for Married Graduate Students

Date: 03 25 1958
Description: Mrs. Charles M. Overby enjoying a quiet afternoon as her two daughters Solveig (3 1/2) and Kim (1) take a nap in their U.W. Eagle Heights apartment. Mr. Ov...
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Ed Stein's Wife, Donna Stein

Date: 04 12 1959
Description: Donna Stein, wife of photographer Ed Stein.
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Mary Livingston Griggs

Date: 1957
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs, wearing a blue skirt and jacket, is seated in a pale blue brocade wing-backed chair, facing a television in the great room of the g...

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